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Image:Primitive plow.jpg|{{Primitive plow.jpg/credit}}<br/>Natives utilize a primitive plow to prepare a field for planting near Mission San Diego de Alcalá. | Image:Primitive plow.jpg|{{Primitive plow.jpg/credit}}<br/>Natives utilize a primitive plow to prepare a field for planting near Mission San Diego de Alcalá. | ||
Image:SD cattle brand.png|{{SD cattle brand.png/credit}}<br/>The cattle brand used at Mission San Diego.<ref>Engelhardt 1920, p. 223. From the '"California Archives, State Papers, Missions'', vol. vi, p. 180.</ref> | Image:SD cattle brand.png|{{SD cattle brand.png/credit}}<br/>The cattle brand used at Mission San Diego.<ref>Engelhardt 1920, p. 223. From the '"California Archives, State Papers, Missions'', vol. vi, p. 180.</ref> | ||
Image:Don Fernando Rivera violates Church asylum.png|{{Don Fernando Rivera violates Church asylum.png/credit}}<br/>Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776. Missionary Father Pedro Font later described the scene: "''...Rivera entered the chapel with drawn sword [in hand]...con la espada desnuda en la mano''." <ref>Engelhardt 1920, p. 76</ref> | |||
Image:Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1848.jpg|{{Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1848.jpg/credit}}<br/>A painting of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it appeared in 1848 depicts the original ''campanario'' ("bell tower"), before it was reduced to rubble. The painting also shows the enclosed front ''portico''. | Image:Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1848.jpg|{{Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1848.jpg/credit}}<br/>A painting of Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it appeared in 1848 depicts the original ''campanario'' ("bell tower"), before it was reduced to rubble. The painting also shows the enclosed front ''portico''. | ||
Image:SD restored property.png|{{SD restored property.png/credit}}<br/>The "Alemany Plat" prepared by the U.S. Land Surveyor's Office to define the property restored to the Catholic Church by the Public Land Commission, later confirmed by Presidential proclamation. | Image:SD restored property.png|{{SD restored property.png/credit}}<br/>The "Alemany Plat" prepared by the U.S. Land Surveyor's Office to define the property restored to the Catholic Church by the Public Land Commission, later confirmed by Presidential proclamation. |
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(PD) Image: U.S. Land Surveyor's Office
The cattle brand used at Mission San Diego.[1](PD) Drawing: Alexander Harmer
Captain Fernando Rivera y Moncada violated ecclesiastical asylum at Mission San Diego de Alcalá on March 26, 1776. Missionary Father Pedro Font later described the scene: "...Rivera entered the chapel with drawn sword [in hand]...con la espada desnuda en la mano." [2](PD) Image: Abraham Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln's signature as it appeared on the United States Patent that restored the Mission property to the Catholic Church in 1862. This is one of the few documents that the President signed as "A. Lincoln" instead of his customary "Abraham Lincoln." [3](PD) Photo: United States Navy
USNS Mission San Diego (T-AO-121) was the eleventh of twenty-seven Mission Buenaventura-class fleet oilers built during World War II for service in the United States Navy, and the only U.S. Naval vessel to have borne the name.[4]